John Revere was a son of a Huguenot emigrant (1540-1790).
John Revere's father was Apollos "Paul" Rivoire, aka "Revere", a French-born Huguenot Protestant refugee who emigrated to New England via the English-governed island of Guernsey, Channel Islands, in 1716. Paul Revere Sr. was a well-known silver and gold-smith in Boston in the 18th Century. His oldest son, Paul Revere Jr., b: 1735, was a famous American Revolution patriot; he was John Revere's older brother.
He was a tailor by trade in Boston, Massachusetts.
John Revere was married twice. First wife was Anna Clemens[1] and the second marriage was to Silence ( Silent? ) Ingerfield [aka: Ingarfield, Ingfield] .
Research Notes
DEATH DATE MUST BE WRONG IF HE MARRIED AGAIN IN 1785 before Rev. John Eliot in the New North Church in Boston, to Silence Ingerfield[2]
ALTERNATE DEATH DATE: 8 JUL 1801 in Boston, Suffolk Co., MA[3]. The accepted death date has always been extracted from John Boyle's 1775 [4]
Sources
↑ Boston, Massachusetts Registry Department. Boston Marriages from 1700 to 1751. Vol. 1. Boston, MA, USA: Municipal Print, 1898.
↑Marriage of Silence & John Revere Pg.100. A Volume of Records Relating to the Early History of Boston: Containing Miscellaneous Papers. S.l: s.n., 1900. Print.
↑ Leacock, John, Samuel Adams, and John Boyle. The First Book of the American Chronicles of the Times: Chap. Iii. Boston: Printed and sold by John Boyle in Marlborough-Street. 1775. Where may be had compleat setts of these chronicles, 1775. Print.
Paul Revere Pg.489. Paul Revere and the World He Lived in By Esther Forbes. Houghton Mifflin: NYC, 1942; (Harcourt ed., 1999).
Andre J. and Pamela Labatut, "Paul Revere's Paternal Ancestry," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 150 (July, 1996)
"Massachusetts, Marriages, 1695-1910," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FCQR-8NG : accessed 22 Mar 2014), John Revere and Anna Clemens, 26 Jun 1764; citing reference ; FHL microfilm 0896885 IT 2.
"Massachusetts, Marriages, 1695-1910," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FCQR-8J5 : accessed 22 Mar 2014), John Revere and Silence Ingerfield, 21 Aug 1785; citing reference ; FHL microfilm 0896885 IT 2.
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